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Even one of the politicians who believes an eight-storey seniors residence is too large for its proposed site predicts it’ll be approved by city council Monday.

But Coun. Stephen Turner isn’t budging on his resistance to it at that size — and he’s pushing back against critics who say his opposition is out of step with his previous support for London’s growth blueprint and bus rapid transit system.

“(I’m concerned with) the assertion that we’ve got this plan and we’re not walking the plan. I disagree with that categorically,” said Turner, in whose ward the project is proposed.

The city growth blueprint says four storeys is reasonable at that spot, near Wellington and Base Line roads. City staff are recommending an exception, and believe eight storeys should be approved.

“I’m disagreeing with the exception. In my perspective it (the height) is just a little too much,” Turner said.

At planning committee this week, Turner, Anna Hopkins and Maureen Cassidy voted to send the plan back to staff to look at reducing the height. Tanya Park and Jesse Helmer wanted to endorse approving it at eight storeys.

Council gets the final say Monday.

Jim MacKinnon is an executive with Local 1059 of the Labourers International Union of North America (LiUNA), which is financing the project. He believes opposing the eight-storey project undermines two of council’s main achievements this term:

Final approval of the London Plan, which calls for a greater focus on intensification and reduced sprawl.

Bus rapid transit, a $440-­million system of high-frequency buses whose south corridor will run down Wellington, near the proposed seniors centre.

Turner notes city staff say in their report that the London Plan “would not contemplate” an eight-storey structure at this spot. But staff say this specific project “is considered to be appropriate.”

The proposed seniors centre would feature transitional housing among its 82 units, meaning it would offer retirement and nursing care. It also would have 12 townhouses. Seven homes would be razed to make way for it, between 633 and 655 Base Line.

Mayor Matt Brown says he’ll support the project at eight storeys.

“If not there, then where?” he said in a Friday interview. “If we aren’t willing to develop here in this location, then where are we willing to develop?”